Neck-protector for coats.



F. G. CURTIS; NECK PROTECTOR FOR COATS. APPLICATION FILED FEB.14. 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orsron.

FRANK e. CURTIS, or s'r. PAUL, MINNESUTIAIASSJIGNOR r0 LEOPQLID A. Gurrnmmiiv,

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 3%, 1912.,

Application filed webruaryi i, 1910. Serial No. 5%,691

' Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neck- Protectorsfor Coats, of which the following is a specification. v

My invention relates to improvements in neck protectors for coats, its object being to provide improved means for protecting the .still looser tension corresponding to zone 2.

neck of the wearer f m the weather.

Theinvention is applicable to overcoats, waist-coats or vests, jackets, and other coats of every sort, whether made with or with out a collar, but is particularly useful to 'forma neck protector for overcoats to be secured upon the coat inside of theregular' storm collar so as to seal the open space-be tween the coat collar and the .wearers neck,- and also to serve as a muflier to fill the open space in front between the lapels or meeting portions of thecoat collar; To this end I have designed a neck protector so knitted and constructed that its inneredge can be readily secured to the coat, while its outer or exposed edge will fit snugly and elastically to the neck without the use of any rub her or other foreign elastic instrumentality. More particularly the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying-drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the neck portion of an 0vercoat fittedwith the improved protector, the

coat and protector being shown closed in front;.Fig. 2 is an inside View of a fragment of theneck portion of a coat with both storm collar and protector turnedup', showing the knitted work of the protector; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the protector alone .when folded and ready for attachment to the coat, a part only of the lmitted work being shown; and Fig. is a plan view of a blank or strip A of the knitted fabric of which the protector is made.

In the construction of this strip the ten'" sion of the machine is adjusted from time to time so as to form agfabric having symmetrical zones of progressively tighter knitting up to a certain point and then progressively looser knitting to another point. Each zone may comprise a single line of knitting, or, as shown in the drawings, a plurality of lines of knittingof equal tension, but the zones as awhole are of progressively tighter and then looser tension, as above stated. For instance at the top of the strip is a zone 2 of loose knitting, which merges into a zone 3 of tighter tension, and zone 3 inturn merges into a zone 4 of still tighter tension. Zone 4 then merges into a' zone 5 of looser tension corresponding .to zone"[8', and zone 5'niergesinto a zone'6 of Thus is formed a strip having symmetrical loose tensionedend zones? and 6 of equal width, symmetrical intermediate zones 3 and 5 of somewhat tighter tension and of equal-width, and a central or middle zone 4 wherein the tension is greatest.

- After the strip. has been knitted as de-- scribed, it is cut'along the lines 7 and 8 at the ends of the loose. zones Qand 6. These lines of cutting are curved inwardly so that the end portions 9 and 10 will extend down to form a filler for the open space between the lapels of the coat, when the protector is used with a coat having a turned or folded collar. After the fabric has been cut to the requisite length,it is folded over upon itself along its transverse medial line 11 so as to bring the edges 7 and 8 together. The line of fold will thus be directly across the middie of the zone 42 of greatest tension, and the zones 2 and 3 will coincide with the corre-' sponding'zones 5 and'ti on the other side of the line of fold, as best shown in Fig. 3. The folded portions are :then secured together by stitching 12 or otherwi-se,'as may be most convenient, and the meeting ends are provided with cooperating fastening.

members 13 and 14 whereby the two ends may be secured together in the position shown'in Fig. '1, The neck-protector thus formed will assume the shape of a hollow truncated cone, and may be stitched or other- Wise secured along its lower 'unfoldcd edge to the neck opening ofthe coat. In Figs. 1 and 2 it is shown stitched by stitching 15 into the seam between the storm collar B and the body portion C of the coat, with its folded ed 'e uppermost and free. Ifdesired, however, he protector, instead ofbeing sewn or otherwise pem anently secured to the coat body, may be made with fastening members 16 arranged along its lower edge-in position to engage eitherthe coat itself, or'cooperation ing fastening members (not shown) arranged thereon, whereby it can be detachably secured to the coat, if it is preferred to .have the protect-or detachable.

It Will be observed that, by securing the neck protector to the coat along its lower edge only, it will stand free from the collar, so that it can be turned up or down irrespective of the position of the collar; and by making the protector of knitted fabric folded over and doubled upon itself wit-h a tighter tension along the neck-engaging line-of-fold 11 than at its lower edge where it is secured to the coat body, the protector will be made to fit snugly and elastically about the neck of the wearer, the freedom of the protector from the collar allowing'its elasticity to have full play. Thisresult is most perfectly and eifectually accomplished by knitting the fabric in zones of progressively tighter tension from the edge Where it is secured to the coat Copies of this patent ma be obtained for toward the medial line of fold 11.

tions of the outer collar or lapels of the coat meet or overlap and thus form a complete closure for the front portion of the neck and the upper portion of the chest of the wearer.

I claim as my invention:

The combination with a coat, of a neck protector comprising a strip of knitted fabric having transverse zones of difierent tension, the tensionof said zones being progressively greater from the edges of the strip to the middle portion thereof, said strip being folded on the medial line of the zone of greatest tension and having zonesof equal tension disposed symmetrically on either side of the line of fold, whereby to exert a maximum of uniform tension at the portion immediately contiguous to the neck, said strip being secured to the neck portion of the coat along its unfolded edges, and cooperating fastening means upon the meeting ends of the protector.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK G. CURTIS.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR P. Lo'rrmor, H. SMITH.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

